Journal papers get retracted all the time. It's not always a case of scientific fraud. Sometimes it is. Sometimes massive fights erupt in the literature. Then, on the other hand, every once-in-awhile something really weird happens. Now gentle readers I present to you a file from files of Retraction Watch and the Twilight Zone.

There has been controversy about this 1994 paper which I had been completely unaware of, but now it turns into a cloak and dagger story where one of the principal authors was caught breaking into a lab freezer and tampering with one of the samples of the students tasked with reproducing the results. By a hidden camera. Really. I'm speachless.